378 Rajinesque on Cylactisy Jiemopanthus, and Polanisia, 



Fem. fl. calyx deciduous 5 phylle ? Ovary ovate, stigma sessile 

 4 lobed. Berry 4 celled 4 seeded . 



The name means ^oa>er with a filiform peduncle. A shrub 

 forms this genus, which had perhaps been united with ilex by 

 Michaux, &c. ; but it differs altogether from it by the want of 

 corolla, hypogynous stamens, sessile, style, &c. it does not 

 even belong to the same family, but to the natural family 

 Rhamnidia, natural order Plynontia, and natural class Eltrogy- 

 nia, next to the genxisfrangula. In the sexual system it would 

 belong to Dioecia pentandria, very far apart from Frangula. 



Nemopanthus fascicularis. Fascicled nemopanthus. Shrub- 

 by, leaves fasciculated, petiolate, oblong, mucronate, entire, 

 rather undulated, membranaceous, smooth ; flowers axillary 

 fasciculated, peduncles filiform, shorter than the leaves. 



It forms a small shrub from 5 to 8 feet high, covered with 

 gray bark, and with slender upright branches ; the flowers are 

 greenish, very small, the female flowers have shorter and 

 thicker peduncles ; they blossom in June. It grows on the 

 Catskill mountains near the two lakes. It is, perhaps, the 

 Ilex canadensis ? of Michaux and Pursh. And it has some ana- 

 logy with the Frangula alnifolia. 



3. N. G. Polaiiisia. 



Calyx 4 phylle, phylles coloured unequal, the upper one 

 unguiculated spatulated. Corolla with 4 unequal petals, the 

 two upper ones larger and unguiculated. A nectarium up- 

 wards glandular, broad, and truncated. Stamina 9 to 14, une- 

 qual, erect, hypogynous. Ovary oblong on a short pedicel, 

 one style, one truncated stigma. Fruit a follicular capsule, one 

 celled, two valved, many seeded, seeds inserted on each side 

 of each suture, nearly snail-shaped. 



The type of this genus is the Cleome dodecandra of Linnaeus, 

 under which denomination many species were blended, which 

 have no similitude with the real genus cleome, differing in the 

 calyx, corolla, nectarium, stamina, and fruit. I shall describe 

 here that of North America, where 2 or 3 species exist, besides 

 those of the West Indies, Africa, and Asia, which are totally 



